8 Mar
2023
8 Mar
'23
6:35 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 6:12 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I'm not familiar with PLATO cassettes. Are those attached to terminals?
The oldest data cassettes I know of are on the TI Silent 733 terminals --
which were thought of as paper tape emulation done on audio cassettes, at
300 bps. But I've never heard of anything like that on PLATO. The closest
similar thing I can think of is floppy disks, which were used as
peripherals to store "micro TUTOR" programs for some later terminals. The
current PLATO emulation at cyber1.org supports this.
The Silent 700 uses digital cassette tapes. I'm not sure what the actual
difference is between them and audio cassettes except for the notch on the
top side.
Sellam